will then make great progress, if you keep yourself free from all worldly entanglement. You will fall back if you esteem worldly things.
Let nothing be great before you, nothing high, nothing pleasing, nothing acceptable, except it be simply God, or comes of God. Esteem all comfort empty,† which comes to you from any creature. A soul that loves God, despises all things that are inferior to God. God alone is everlasting, and of infinite greatness, filling all things; the soul's solace, and the true joy of the heart. •